El estatus sintáctico-semántico del caso dativo con verbos estativos latinos

Abstract

The aim of this article is to determine the syntactic- semantic nature of the dative appearing in some constructions of three Latin verbs ( maneo, permaneo and remaneo ) which share —among others— the semantic notion of «permanence». After presenting the data provided by the dictionaries and a corpus study, I propose different semantic and complementation structures for the verbs analysed. A more detailed examination of the structures in which a dative constituent appears, allows us to understand that the verbal notion of these constructions is existential in nature and that the dative can be considered an argument. Accordingly, I propose a predicate frame of the construction as well as a possible process for the setting of this construction.